Elasticized garments



Jan. 21, 1969 o. ERTESZEK ELASTICIZED GARMENTS Sheet 1220. 2.

Filed Feb. '7, 1966 mz N Ns m Jan. 21, 1969 Filed Feb. 7, 1966 o.ERTESZEK 3,422,818

ELASTICIZED GARMENTS Sheet 2 of 2 [VI/EN TOR. 0L 6n EerEsZEK UnitedStates Patent 3,422,818 ELASTICIZED GARMENTS Olga Erteszek, Los Angeles,Calif., assignor to Olga Company, Van Nuys, Calif., a corporation ofCalifornia Filed Feb. 7, 1966, Ser. No. 525,423 US. Cl. 128-454 Int. Cl.A41c 3/08; A41c 3/10; A41b 9/08 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE Thisinvention relates generally to novel features in womens garmentsincorporating built-in brassieres as well as related characteristicsthat render the garments especially convenient, comfortable andattractive for wear.

More particularly, the invention is concerned with novel constructionscentering primarily in elasticized bodices which optionally may beassociated with skirt portions, as for example in undergarments havingthe combined features of slips and built-in brassiere bodices. Asillustrative, the invention will be described with reference to thattype of undergarment which combines the features and utilities of anelasticized (and optionally decorative) bodice with its integratedbrassiere, and a slip having unique association with the bodice, as willappear.

The invention has for one of its general objects to provide a novelbodice contoured as a brassiere and wherein a lining component of thebrassiere is so associated with and supported by the bodice as to affordexceptional comfort and support for the wearer, and to the exclusion ofconventional brassieres.

In a more specific objective, the invention contemplates construction ofthe bodice with its built-in brassiere as characterized, wherein therear or a rear section of the bodice is made of elastic fabric soassociated with the front of the bodice as to cause it to be formfitting, and to afford elastically tensioned support for the brassiere.

Structurally, this objective is accomplished by forming the brassiereproper essentially as a contoured comfortable fitting internal componentattached to the bodice so as to have freedom for independent movement,and so connecting the brassiere to the rear elasticized section of thebodice that in the worn condition of the garment, forces resulting fromtransverse tensioning of the elasticized section are so transmitted tothe lower extent of the brassiere as to alford necessary and comfortablydistributed support.

As applied to slip-type garments, the invention further contemplatesnovel association of the slip skirt with the bodice, by extension of theslip material as a lining for the front section of the bodice, arelation that becomes particularly effective where the bodice may bemade of open lace or like material.

The invention has various additional features, objects and details, allof which will be understood from the following description of theaccompanying drawing, in

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FIG. 1 is a generally front perspective view showing the garment in worncondition;

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FIG. 2 is a generally rear view perspective of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a view showing the top, including bodice, portion of thegarment in vertical section;

FIG. 4 is a cross section taken on line 4-4 of FIG. 3;

FIGS. 5 and 6 are enlarged cross sections taken respectively on lines 55and 6-6 of FIG. 4; and

FIG. 7 is a cross section taken on line 7-7 of FIG. 3.

In reference first to FIGS. 1 and 2, the illustrative embodiment of theinvention may be described generally as comprising an upper bodice 10and lower skirt or slip extent 11 associated with the bodice as laterexplained. In an undergarment the slip may optionally have bottom trim12.

The bodice 10 is shown to comprise an elasticized rear section or panel13 which may be made of woven or knitted elastic thread fabricstretchable vertically and horizontally. For decorative effect, thepanel 13 desirably is made of elastic lace stretchable for conformanceto the body contour. The front section or panel 14 of the bodicepreferably is made of freely flexible but nonelastic fabric sewn to therear panel 13 along side seam lines 15. For decorative conformance withthe rear panel, front panel 14 may be made of a normal lace having thepattern of the rear panel lace. The bodice is shown to have shoulderstraps at 16, the rear extents 17 of which are formed as continuationsof the elastic lace and joined at 18 to front continuations 19 of theinelastic lace.

The slip or skirt portion 11 is joined along seam line 20 to the bottomof the unlined rear panel 13, but at the front of the garment the slipfabric is extended upwardly as lining for the panel 14 and alsodesirably as linings for the shoulder strap extents 19, particularlywhere the front panel is made of lace. The slip fabric lining isattached to the inside of the garment along the side seam lines 15 andalso along the upper edges 21 and 22 of the bodice as well as along theedges of the strap sections 19. Also the slip material may be sewn tothe bottom edge continuances 23 of the rear seam line 20.

In more particular reference to FIGS. 3 to 7, the front panel 14 isshown to be shaped to provide breast cups 24 to which the slip materiallining is conformed at 25, the upper extents of the cupped fabricterminating at the edges 21 and 22. The built-in brassiere proper,generally indicated at 26, is shaped and formed to have cup sections 27conformed or conformable to panel fabric at 24, and made of a suitablesoft material having greater body than the outer fabric of the garment.Such material typically may be a quilted pad fabric sewn at 33 along theside edges of the cups to the bodice in alinement with the seam 15, andsewn also to the top edges 21 and 22 as well as to the undersides of thestrap sections 19. The inner opposed edges of the padded cups 27 aresewn at 28 to a central preferably elasticized insert 29 extending fromthe bottom to the top of the brassiere, the insert typically being madeof the same elastic lace as used for the rear panel 13, sewn centrallyto the outer front panel 14 along the seam line 30. Except forattachment at their tops and sides and along the seam line 30, thebottom edges of the cup pads and the insert 29 are free from attachmentto the garment otherwise.

An important feature of the invention, in conjunction with the rearelastic panel 13 is the provision of a brassiere support in the form ofan elastic band or tape 31 sewn to the bottom edges of the cup pads andinsert 29, and terminally attached to the garment, including the rearpanel, at the side seams 15. The elastic tension band 31 otherwise isunattached to the garment so that it remains free for tensioning to theextent dictated by the body size of the wearer and the degree of stretchconfinement by the band and rear panel.

Thus in the worn condition of the garment, which is sized to have acomfortable degree of stretch fit, stretch tensioning of the rear panelis transmitted to the band 31 which is allowed to stretch conformablyand thus function as an effective body adherent support for the breastcups.

It is understood that the drawings are to be regarded as illustrative ofthe invention in a typical embodiment, and that various details may bechanged without departure from the invention in its intended scope.

I claim:

1. A womans garment comprising a bodice having a fabric front portionshaped to provide abreast cups, an elastic fabric rear panel attached atthe sides of the bodice to said front portion and adapted to stretchacross the back of the wearer, lining material within and shaped incupped conformity with said breast cups to form lining cups, said liningcups being joined to the upper edges of the first mentioned cups and tosaid rear panel at the sides of the bodice and the lining material beingfree of attachment to said front portion at the bottoms of the cups, andsupport means attached to the bottoms of the lining cups extendingtransversely within the garment to attachments with said elastic rearportion, said support means also being unattached to said outer frontportion at and below the bottoms of the cups.

2. A garment according to claim 1, in which said means comprises alongitudinally elastic strap attached to the bottoms of the liningbreast cups.

3. A garment according to claim 1, in which said lining material isattached to said front portion at a location between the lining cups.

4. A garment according to claim 1, including also elastic means attachedcentrally to said front portion and interconnecting the lining cups at alocation between them.

5. A garment according to claim 1, in which said lining material isrelatively thick cushioning material.

6. A garment according to claim 5, in which said lining material isquilted fabric attached to said support means.

7. A garment according to claim 1, in which the garment has a skirtformed as a continuation of said bodice front portion and attached tosaid elastic rear panel.

8. A garment according to claim 7, in which the skirt material extendsto the top of the garment front and is attached to the top edges of thefirst mentioned cups and lining cups.

9. A garment according to claim 8, in which said front portion of thebody has decorative lace lined by the skirt material.

10. A garment according to claim 9, in which said lining material isquilted fabric and said support means is an elastic strap attachedthereto.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,701,362 2/1955 Lo Cascio 1284912,896,630 7/1959 Adler 128489 3,067,751 12/1962 Steiner 128489 3,149,3429/1964 Cederholm 2-73 ADELE M. EAGER, Primary Examiner.

US. Cl. X.R. 128-484, 498; 273

